{"id":467910,"date":"2025-01-27T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=467910"},"modified":"2025-01-27T02:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:00:03","slug":"look-again-and-think-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/look-again-and-think-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Again and Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e08dff8453d91348069c149c9f3e64f0 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do not worry about your life. \u2014Matthew 6:25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How easy following this command would be if we could just decide, once and for all, to stop worrying about the world and its demands; if, having pledged ourselves to Jesus, we could just forget about the things that used to obsess us. But answering the call is never this easy. The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the pull of desire and hunger and lust\u2014these are recurring tides, always lapping at our shores. If we don\u2019t allow the Spirit of God to rise up against them, they\u2019ll come flooding in.<br>Jesus is telling us to be careful about one thing only: our relationship to him. Common sense shouts that this is ridiculous, that we must think about what we\u2019re going to eat and drink and wear. Jesus says we must not. Beware of thinking that Jesus\u2019s words don\u2019t apply to your particular circumstances, that he doesn\u2019t understand what you\u2019re going through right now. Jesus understands your circumstances better than you do, and he says you must not make these things the central concern of your life. Whenever there\u2019s a competition, put your relationship to God first.<br>\u201cEach day has enough trouble of its own\u201d (Matthew 6:34). How much trouble has begun to threaten you today? What mean little imps have been looking in and saying, \u201cWhat are you going to do next month, next summer, next year?\u201d \u201cDo not be anxious,\u201d Paul tells us (Philippians 4:6). Look again, and think, drawing your awareness to the \u201cmuch more\u201d of your heavenly Father: \u201cWill he not much more clothe you\u2014you of little faith?\u201d (Matthew 6:30).<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not worry about your life. \u2014Matthew 6:25 How easy following this command would be if we could just decide, once and for all, to stop worrying about the world and its demands; if, having pledged ourselves to Jesus, we could just forget about the things that used to obsess us. But answering the call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}